绑在绳索保护中等等!

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SEM at ARC William and Mary
Molly carefully inserting a wooden sample in the SEM chamber and the computer monitor displaying a previous sample image

I have been meaning to write a blog about progress on theMonitorropes but, although archaeological objects conservators are currently focused on this part of the collection, we do all sorts of other things that I thought would also be interesting to share with you.

如果您还没有这样做,请查看Laurie的latestblogsabout the gun sponge she has been treating lately. It looks so good!!阅读更多

Princess Carolina Update: Treatment Testing and Small Artifact Work

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Preparing nanoparticle products for testing. Image courtesy of The Mariners’ Museum and Park.

Happy February, Mariners’ family!

I hope you all had a lovely holiday season and a great start to the New Year. I wanted to give you all a quick update aboutPrincess Carolina又名Ronson,因为我们发生了一些激动人心的事情!阅读更多

Princess Carolina Progress: New Strides in Caring for the Collection

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Macroscopic view of a white oak endgrain. Arrows denote large rays characteristic of oaks. (Meier, 2020)

Hello Mariners’ family!

I hope you’re all doing well, staying safe, and enjoying the holiday season. I’m writing again because I wanted to give you all an update on the work I started in November on Princess Carolina aka the Ronson ship.阅读更多

New Year, New Project: USS Monitor’s rope

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这张我在2019年有一个接头forming two loops. Features like this may help us understand more about its purpose.

What’s your New Year’s resolution? I’m not great about setting personal resolutions, but we do have one for USSMonitor;2021年是绳子一年!今年,考古保护者正在分别一起工作,以完成我们步入式冰箱中的所有绳索碎片。

通常,我们的年度工作计划着重于需要多个人的较大项目。然后,我们用较小的文物来填补额外的时间。由于社会疏远和限制实验室空间中的人,这个项目是一个很好的选择。我们四个人将在我们自己的时间一起工作,以处理其余的90个戒指。这个不仅可以在我们冷藏区域中的免费空间,而且意味着将处理整个材料类型并可用于研究。阅读更多

Saving Princess Carolina: Acidification Research and Future Treatment Options

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Figure 3. A degrading area of wood surrounding a fastener hole in one of Princess Carolina’s timbers. Image courtesy of The Mariners’ Museum and Park.

Hi! My name is Christy and I’m a conservation intern here at the Batten Conservation Complex. Over the past eight months I’ve been working on a research project at The Mariners’ Museum and Park for the final year of my graduate program at Durham University. This project has involved a condition analysis and investigation of potential treatments for thePrincess Carolinatimbers which are currently deteriorating because of acid formation.

Although my time as an intern is almost up, we have recently found out that I’ll be able to continue my work here next year! The Mariners’ has been named one of six museums to receive the Kress Conservation Fellowship which provides funding for a post-graduate fellow at the Museum. I will serve as that fellow as I continue the exciting research I’m about to tell you all about!阅读更多